Following the noted success of the 1st international conference on postdisciplinary approaches to tourism studies (held in Neuchatel, Switzerland, 19-22 June, 2013), we are happy to welcome you to the 2nd Tourism Postdisciplinarity Conference.
Postdisciplinarity surpasses the boundaries of disciplinary thinking and opens up the possibility to question the established phenomena – touristic or otherwise – we take for granted. It does not claim that disciplinarity is essentially wrong, but it shows that disciplinary silos limit our capacity to make sense of the world and aims to make the subject of study less embedded in that system of thought. Postdisciplinarity is an epistemological endeavour that speaks of knowledge production and the ways in which the world of physical and social phenomena can be known. It is also an ontological discourse as it concerns what we call ‘tourism’. Postdisciplinarity, as we see it, is an invitation to various interpretations, critical analysis, and creative problem solving. It extends to questioning conventional norms and processes of knowledge production, as well as challenging the environments that confine the scope and limits of what is possible, relevant, desirable and even credible.

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The recent years of rapid development of mobile technologies creates
opportunities for new user-groups in the mobile workforce to take advantage of information
systems (IS). However, to apprehend and harness these opportunities
for mobile IS it is crucial to fully understand the user group and the mobile technology.
In this paper we deductively, from previous research on aspects on mobility,
synthesize a tentative analytical framework capturing factors accentuated in
mobile IS design. We evaluate the framework based on criteria of completeness,
distinctiveness, and simplicity. Eventually, these two steps develop the framework
towards a theoretical contribution as theory for describing handheld computing
from a designer’s perspective. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were made and
the tentative framework was elaborated and confirmed.

The customer survey has become increasingly central to accounting and accountability as pressures to make organizations and professionals more responsive to their customers has intensified over the past twenty years. Yet, the significance and effects of the addition of the survey technology and technique to practices of accounting has hitherto been overlooked. This paper begins to close this research gap by investigating what happens on and around the survey to remake it as central to accounting in healthcare. This paper shows the activities to account for the customer and to make organizations and professionals accountable to her through the survey to involve the ‘remanagerialization of the patient’—that is, the recreation of the patient as a customer with “experiences” uniquely capable of allowing healthcare providers to achieve distinctive managerial ends. This paper also shows these processes to involve the ‘sequestration of customer experience’. Accounting comes to express the customer’s view, and the customer’s view becomes an expression of accounting. This connectivity provides an ontological security and a moral vacuity: it at once establishes control over the experiences of customers and at the same time removes the full breadth of these experiences from organizational life. The intertwining of the survey with accounting, as such, is shown not to entail simply the adoption of a new technology, but rather the wholesale remaking of system to give a voice to the customer and allow her to be heard. Illumination of the processes by which such a system emerged provides insights into accounting change and means of accounting more successfully for customers.

The quality of user experience relies heavily on the consistence and integration of multiple touch points along the journey of purchasing and using mobile services. The challenges caused by fragmented and distributed touch points might be well tackled by providing context-awareness design (CAD). By analyzing the context of using mobile music services we come up with a framework of CAD. CAD can sense the differences of contexts behind multiple touch points, understand the meaning underneath, predict upcoming possible actions, give advice to users and offer customized and adaptive services.

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This is a longitudinal study of the extent to which luxury fashion brands have struggled with the dilemma of on the one hand interacting with fans and customers online, while on the other hand retain the exclusivity, surprise, and innovation hype of the brand. We have developed a framework for assessing websites and social media sites of luxury fashion brands. We applied the framework in three empirical studies in 2006, 2008 and 2010. Our findings show that the observed luxury brands have increased their adoption of social and interactive digital Internet-based technologies since 2006. We also document some of the most interesting uses of Web 2.0 technologies fashion brands for creating an immersing and innovative environment online. While some brands like Burberry has gone „the full Monty‟, others like Prada has not had a functioning web-site since 2007, probably disappointed about their first attempts at „getting their feet wet‟ early on. The findings have theoretical relevance in the shape of the 8C framework, but it should also have relevance for practitioners, as it might function as a checklist for creators and management of fashion brand websites.

Business
schools
all
over
the
world
claim
educating
leaders
as
a
primary
objective.
Consider
these
from
the
“mission
statements”
of
prominent
players:
• “We
educate
leaders
who
make
a
difference
in
the
world”
(Harvard
Business
School),
• “…to
develop
innovative,
principled,
and
insightful
leaders”
(Stanford
Graduate
School
of
Business),
• “Through
teaching,
we
develop
responsible,
thoughtful
leaders”
(INSEAD)
At
the
same
time,
however,
there
have
been
many
claims
that
business
schools
have
not
delivered
on
these
commitments.
Just
two
weeks
ago,
Robert
Reich,
a
former
US
Treasury
Secretary,
criticized
Harvard
Business
School
for
“inculcating
in
[its
graduates]
a
set
of
ideas
and
principles
that
have
resulted
in
a
pay
gap
between
CEOs
and
ordinary
workers
that’s
gone
from
20-­‐to-­‐1
fifty
years
ago
to
almost
300-­‐to-­‐1
today,”
implying
that
social
ills
have
been
a
direct
result
of
the
content
and
nature
of
the
school’s
leadership
training.1
David
Brookes,
writing
in
the
New
York
Times
on
September
22
suggests
we
are
experiencing
a
“leadership
crisis”
in
today’s
world.2
There
is
a
pressing
need
for
leadership
pedagogy
to
(continue
to)
evolve,
especially
in
business
schools.
Progress
needs
to
be
made
in
terms
of
content,
but
also,
in
this
time
of
MOOCs
and
advancing
educational
technologies
on
every
front,
in
terms
of
modes
of
delivery.

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As the role of ontology in a multilingual setting
becomes important to Semantic Web development, it becomes
necessary to understand and model how an original conceptual
meaning of a Source Language word is conveyed into a Target
Language translation. Terminological ontology [1] is a tool
used for knowledge sharing and domain-specific translation,
and could potentially be suitable for simulating the cognitive
models explaining real-world inter-cultural communication
scenarios. In this paper, a framework referred to as the
Relevance Theory of Communication [2] is contrasted to an
empirical study applying Tversky´s contrast model [3] to datasets
obtained from the terminological ontology. The results
indicate that the alignment of two language-dependent
terminological ontologies is a potential method for optimizing
the relevance required in inter-cultural communication, in
other words, for identifying corresponding concepts existing in
two remote cultures.

Across many construction projects, and especially infrastructure projects, efforts to
mitigate the potential loss of biodiversity and habitat are significant, and at times
controversial. In our paper we do not propose to gauge the success or failure of this
effort; rather we are interested in fleshing out some conceptual approaches via Actor-
Network Theory through which infrastructure projects can start to address a series of
overlooked questions. Some of these questions are firmly located within the realm of
construction project management: are animals considered project risks or
stakeholders; is wildlife always simply a retrospective cost to a project or can it
proactively benefit a project, can we ever manage wildlife, and if so how? These
questions in turn lead us to engage with wider debates found in the margins between
the social and biological sciences on the distinction between Nature and Politics: to
what extent should we seek a place for animals in politics and how can we live with
them ethically. Thus far, very little research has addressed the interplay of humans
and animals within construction projects. Instead those interested in the politics and
ethics of human-animal relations, or Animal Studies, have focussed far more on stable
and contained sites, whether organisations like zoos, farms or laboratories, or other
places like homes and parks. These largely ethnographic studies inevitably perhaps
downplay the unplanned, unexpected and highly politically and ethically charged
collision of hitherto rather separate human and animal geographies. Yet, as we argue
here, it is often along such colliding spaces, where animal geographies are
unexpectedly found at the heart of human projects, that we ask and answer many of
the above questions around our respect and response to both animals, and indeed
other humans. In this paper we will examine such encounters conceptually, with
reference to two infrastructure projects, and discuss their relevance to both
construction project management and broader work on the politics of animals.

This paper analyzes patterns of conceptualizations
possessed by different groups of subjects. The eventual goal of
this work is to dynamically learn and structure semantic representations
for groups of people sharing domain knowledge. In
this paper, we conduct a survey for collecting data representing
semantic representations of 34 subjects with different profiles
in gender and educational background. The collected data is
analyzed by an approach combining two extended versions of
the Infinite Relational Model (Kemp et al. 2006) [1]: multiarray
Infinite Relational Model (Mørup et al. 2010) [2] and
normal Infinite Relational Model (Herlau et al. 2012) [3].
Results indicate that the employed approach not only localizes
similar patterns of conceptualization within a group of subjects
having a common profile, but also identifies differences in
conceptualization across different subject groups.

Research in modularity design and in production systems in the automotive industry is
increasing, as many Western and Japanese firms are applying this concept. This study
focuses the relationships between modularity in design (MID) and production (MIP).
After analysing 60 papers on MID and MIP in automotive companies, it was observed
that some publications suggest that relationships between MID and MIP can be twoways,
i.e. not only the former affects the latter, but the latter also affects the former.
Conclusively, the relationships between MID and MIP are relevant and future studies
should emphasise how they produce managerial benefits and/or drawbacks.

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This study is reporting on the extended period prior to implementation of the largest ever Health IT implementation in Denmark – Sundhedsplatformen. Preliminary analysis of data points to the need to take into consideration what I call the anticipatory phase. The study argues that the anticipatory pre-adoption phase is where individuals prepare for pending changes through positioning. It is as such an early stage where sensemaking is based e.g. on vague strategic messages from management, hear-say-information and experiences from the past IT implementations, rather than on factual and up-to date information about specific changes or concrete experience.

Enterprise Systems have become the default support systems for business processes in commercial
organisations. Their promise of increased efficiency and effectiveness fits well with profit-based strategic
objectives, and can be linked directly to customer choice. The last fifteen years have seen extensive
implementation of Enterprise Systems in the University sector. While efficiency and effectiveness may be
important in this sector, they are not linked directly to customer choice – the concept of a customer is
complex, and choices may include many influences which are unaffected by administrative processes. Using
one Australian and one Danish University as examples, an analysis of the benefits from using Enterprise
Systems in Universities and in supermarkets is undertaken. There are some differences in the nature of those
benefits. More importantly, differences in links between those benefits and the effect on customer choice are
pronounced, with significant impacts for research and practical implications of Enterprise Systems.

Program management includes a multitude of decisions on numerous parameters: course content, modes of delivery, management of professional and academic standards, admission, grading, finance, and marketing.
At the same time, program management is seen as an organisational response to demands from multiple stakeholders with conflicting interests. How does the process assure salient stakeholders influence on program management decisions? Five groups of stakeholders are considered: Faculty/academics, students, industry/employers, the Institution (senior management), and society at large.
Different HEIs have chosen different solutions to program management.
In this paper we (1) sketch a conceptual framework for an analysis of HE program management and (2) describe the framework for study program management at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark, reflecting on the benefits and shortcomings of this particular organisational model. The discussion serves as a point of departure for developing a holistic model that both addresses multiple tasks and legitimate stakeholder interests.

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All of the three major theories of the firm, i.e., the transaction cost theory, knowledge-based theory and the entrepreneurship theory, offer some insightful analyses of the nature of the firm. However, they all have limitations and weaknesses in answering the fundamental question of the existence of the firm. In addition, they are all partial due to their particular focus on the multifaceted phenomenon of the firm. We argue that it is necessary and sufficient to develop a comprehensive yet integrative theory of the firm that combines the three competing yet complementary logics. Toward this end, we propose an aspirational community theory of the firm (ACT) as a candidate theory by conceptualizing the firm as an aspirational community, the core of which is a group of like-minded people sharing similar or same aspiration/vision. To explain the comparative advantage of the firm vis-à-vis market, we make a distinction between contractual labor and aspirational labor, the former being defined as services provided by a laborer in fulfillment of a contract while the latter as services provided by a laborer in pursuit of an aspiration; and argue that firms exist because while the market may be effective and efficient for allocating contractual labor it is less effective and efficient than the firms for allocating aspirational labor.

Group work has been adopted as an important tool to support collaborative work in order to enhance
learning processes. There is a wealth of literature related to group performance and the impact of group composition
on group and individual performance. However, very few studies address the issue on how to automatically form
groups. This article proposes a methodology that could be used by professors to form groups automatically taking
into account different criteria as well as the students’ profile. This methodology is based on a pilot study that
analyzes group composition of self-formed student groups.

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In this paper, I first briefly introduce Moon & Roehl’s (1993, 2001) imbalance theory of FDI, then I identify its three deficiencies that may be responsible for the relative lack of impact of the potentially powerful imbalance logic, and then I propose an asymmetry reduction theory (ARC) of FDI and explain its aspiration-resource-control (ARC) framework. I conclude the paper with a brief discussion of the OLI framework being a special case of the ARC framework.

This paper builds on a case study of diversity work in a Swedish municipality, Malmö. It focus on one aspect of the diversity work done in the municipality, that of a gender and diversity committee and its members – so called diversity ambassadors. I will describe the work of the diversity ambassadors and discuss what impact they could possibly have on the organization.

This paper builds on a case study of diversity work in a Swedish municipality, Malmö. It focuses on certain actors partaking in the diversity work done in the municipality that of a gender and diversity committee and its members – here called diversity ambassadors. I will describe the work of the diversity ambassadors and discuss what impact they could possibly have on the organization.
Organizational efforts to change inequalities at the workplace may take different forms. The literature describes different ways to organize the diversity and equality work. In this paper I will focus a specific group of people assigned to do diversity work – so called diversity ambassadors (Omanović, 2006) or diversity champions (Subeliani & Tsogas, 2005). The diversity ambassadors are representatives of different departments and units of the organization. The ambassadors are convened in a committee in order to implement diversity initiatives at the various organizational levels on behalf of senior management. Such committees, which ideally should include representatives from different hierarchical levels of the organization, are typically charged with overseeing diversity initiatives, identifying potential remedies and monitoring progress (Kalev, Kelly, & Dobbin, 2006).

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This research takes up the concept of authenticity as a criterion variable for theology of the workplace analysis, a domain which explores employment parameters in light of religious teaching on the social question at national, organizational or firm-specific levels. Following a review of the concept in Western culture, philosophy, and management studies, Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) and Roman Catholic social teachings are investigated for positively correlative data to help develop the criterion variable. From the literature review of concept and historical data in both traditions, it becomes possible to specify employment relations parameters between the indirect and direct employer and employees in a manner that will ensure working conditions consistent with these traditions, substantially enhancing the prospect of authenticity in employment relations. This theology of the workplace analysis should complement and support corporate social responsibility, management spirituality, authentic leadership / authentic follower, and other secular research by offering a research methods bridge between empirically grounded theology and secular studies, with the common goal of improving workplace and enterprise function for competitive and sustainable enterprise, organization, and national outcomes.